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• Suu Kyi made a two-day trip to the region to hear people's grievances and try to help mediate a resolution. Hours before she arrived Thursday, security forces launched a brutal crackdown on protesters that was the biggest of its kind since President Thein Sein took office last year.
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Wyo. police: 2 slain before killer takes own life in front of college classroom
• CASPER, Wyo. (AP) -- The first victim was found in the gutter of a quiet residential street, just as the killer was shedding blood again on the campus of a nearby community college.
• Wielding some kind of sharp-edged weapon, he killed a community college instructor before taking his own life in front of a classroom of students.
• Police wouldn't speculate on a motive for the murder-suicide and said little about how it all developed Friday at Casper College and in a neighborhood about two miles away. They hinted, however, that the three knew each another.
• Casper Police Chief Chris Walsh said an "edged weapon" was used in at least one of the killings. He didn't say more about what type of weapon it was and whether the killer used the same weapon in all of the deaths.
• He said he didn't know how many students were in the class or what the topic was. The attacker wasn't believed to be a Casper College student but it appeared he knew the victims, he said.
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Mankato football coach cleared of child porn charges, but fate at school uncertain
• MANKATO, Minn. (AP) -- A Minnesota college football coach said he wants to return to work now that a judge has dismissed prosecutors' claims that video he took of his children playing after a bath amounted to pornography.
• A judge sided with Todd Hoffner, head coach at Minnesota State-Mankato, by throwing out the child porn charges against him on Friday. The judge said the cellphone video was nothing more than children playfully dancing naked after a bath.
• "I'm just so thankful to be waking up from this nightmare," Hoffner said after the ruling, which came more than three months after the coach was escorted off a practice field and later arrested.
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